Experimental Museology scrutinizes innovative endeavours to transform museum interactions with the world. Analysing cutting-edge cases from around the globe, the volume demonstrates how museums can design, apply and assess new modes of audience engagement and participation.

Marianne Achiam has a PhD in science education, and is Associate Professor at the Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research is concerned with how the science of scientists becomes embodied in science education and communication contexts (e.g. museums) to eventually become the science of the public.

Michael Haldrup is Professor (wsr) in visual culture and performance design at Roskilde University, Denmark. He has written extensively about the performance turn in cultural/social theory, especially with regard to heritage and leisure/tourism studies, including Performing tourist places (Ashgate, 2004) and Tourism, performance and the everyday (Routledge, 2009) and about design and experience-based communication.

Kirsten Drotner is Professor of media studies at the University of Southern Denmark and director of two national R&D programmes DREAM and Our Museum. Her research interests include children's media and information literacies, digital co-creation and creative learning, and digital museum communication.

Introduction: For an experimental museology
Michael Haldrup Pedersen, Kirsten Drotner and Marianne Achiam
Part 1: Institutions
1. Experimental museology in the age of experience
Sarah Kenderdine
2. Museological organizations in Brazil: Between doors and grids
Wescley Xavier, Diana Castro and Vanessa Brulon
3. Designing astrophysics exhibitions for gender inclusion
Line Nicolaisen, Marianne Achiam and Tina Ibsen
4. Experimental innovation in museums: Encouraging creativity, building confidence and creating social value
Haitham Eid
Part 2: Representations
5. Advocacy of shock: Animating the museum, slowing down the visitors
Mieke Bal
6. Telling the whole story: Researching, curating and designing virtual architectural experiences
Palmyre Pierroux, Birgitte Sauge, Rolf Steier, Anne Qvale
7. User-generated content: A way forward for museums?
Barbara Thiele
8. Reversing museumification: From colonial heterotropics to global heritage aesthetics in Roundhay's Tropical World, Leeds.
Rodanthi Tzanelli
Part 3: Users
9. Across the doorway: Post-critical museology from a closed university museum
Gianluigi Mangiapane and Erika Grasso
10. Museography and performativity
Rodrigo Tisi Paredes
11. Representing 'others': Cultural strategies for critique and rights to belong
Andrea Witcomb
12. Human rights, social justice and museological practice
Jenifer J. Carter
13. Experimental Museology: Implications and Perspectives
Kirsten Drotner, Michael Haldrup Pedersen and Marianne Achiam